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W. B. SHATTUC.

Railroad Ticket. e No. 239,859. Patented A'p'ril5",l88l..

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u BAGnAul-. 4th. That one Bngltnlte Coupon shall be de'uched by theStatlon [langage Master, for even' twb nlles n: frac- Llon lherenf tothe stallen for whit-h hnuzne ls cheeked 5th. That Baggage Conpnns umvnld if detached by any persnn but the Station Baggage Master whenchecklng bnggage.

6th. Flut Conductors hnll collect the Baggage Coupons which nre attachedto' the llllleage Coupons prsented for passage.

7th. Thnt Station Baggnge Mnslers. shall nut check bnggnge on BnggmzeConpnns. unless nll precedll|g-Mllc nge Uunpcus hnvc been used forsausage.

B Thntlt. enlltles the pnnnner toutravel only be tween relnlmsmpplngalaces nl trnlns.

9th. 'Al fnmtlons o n mile slmll be compntnd ns n mlle ln cnlculntln:dlstance traveled.

lh. Thnt |l\ls tlcket will be surrendered to the Condnl-tnr when thelnstConpnns are dem. ed.

11th. Thal: the tlvket will not be honored unless this contrnetlsslgnedhy th arson ln whose name lt is immed.

12th. In the event of as# or rlxnnnge to baggage. which shall cnnslsr.of wcnrlm; apparel only, no claim shnll he made therefor ln exi-ess nflll'tv dollars, und passage w not be ulalmed on thls tlnkct. nrredemption o1 lt asked after one ear tram dnte of lnc.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT Orrin-E.

WILLIAM B. sHATTUjc, on "CINCINNATI, onto.

RAILROAD-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,859, dated April 5,1881.

Application filed May 12, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM B. SnA'r'rUc,

which the following is a specication.

My invention, while applicable to various forms of commutationpassage-tickets, is more especially designed for what are known asthousand-mile tickets..77 The ordinary form of such a ticket is a bookcontaining one thousand separable coupons, consecutively numbered, eachgood for one mile of travel.

Theform of thousandmile ticket customarily employed is found to beimperfect and unsatisfactory to the railroad-managers, because aninadequate check on holders who have abused the special privilege, andit is unsatisfactory to the general traveler who ndssuch coinmutantsenjoying advantages not possessed by him. A railway passage-ticket,whether single or multiple, always, as is well known, implies the rightto conveyance of accompanying baggage not in excess of a prescribedWeight, say one hundred and fifty pounds. The passenger who desires tocarry baggage presents his ticket to the baggageniaster, who vpunches itwith the letter 13. Even should the passenger not accompany his baggage,the punch aforesaid is `an absolute check on any attempt of a double useof the ticket for baggage privileges. In practice passengers seldomdesire or avail themselves of their full privileges in this respect, sothat the average baggage-weight per traveler is only a small fraction ofthe permitted maximum, and a passengerwho fails to avail himself of hisfull baggage privileges on one trip cannot recoup on the next; but inthe case of a commutationticket composed of a multitude of such milecoupons the above-mentioned precautions are impracticable, because inthe hurry of departing trains the punching of each individual couponwould consume very much more time than the baggage-master has at hisdisposal, and hence he is obliged to depend wholly on the good faithofthe ticket-holder. With the majority of holders he would, of course,be perfectly safe in so doing; but experience has proven that a numerousminority of holders have-abused the trust by using it for the gran/W.tuitous shipment of merchandise many times in excess of their fcontract.

To make impossible such clandestine use of commutation `privileges isthe object of my in- 5 5 vention.

My improvement consists in a'coiipon-book in which is providedwith eachmile-passage coupon, or with each group of two or more such coupons, abaggage coupon or tag correspond- 6o `ing to the `same-,number `ofmiles, and so connected Withits passagecoupon as to bring the,passagefcoupon between the baggage-tag and the stub,` so thatitsdetachment will be quickly noticed,`the baggage privilege extendingonly to the remaining passage-coupons having such baggage-coupons inline therewith, the baggagecoupons not being recognized., or of novalue, unless accompanied by the associate passagecoupon, which cannotbe removedirom 7o its associate baggage-coupon without forfeiting itsbaggage privilege. On the presentation of such a ticket forthe purposeof securing free transportation of baggage, the baggagemaster willsimply separate baggage-coupons corresponding to thedistance to whichthe baggage is to be taken, thus divesting so many of thepassage-coupons of their baggage privileges. This is the work of amoment, and,

while imposing no inconvenience ou respect- 8o able comm utors, willrestrict the holder of such a ticket to the precise privileges as tobaggage enjoyed by ordina-ry passengers, and will put a stop to an abuseof the privilege so injurious and demoralizing as to have caused theentire abolition of such favors to have been seriously debated.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in 9o consistof any convenient number of coupons.

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Each book may, of course, ioo

My practice is to include on each leaf twenty passenger one-mile couponsin two parallel columns, as represented at A A, and ten correspondingbaggage two-mile coupons in another parallel column, B, as in theaccompanying drawings. The column B is printed with the sentence Baggage2 miles.7

In my preferred arrangement, here selected for illustration, themile-passage coupons are disposed in consecutive pairs between onebaggage-coupon and the stub C; but, if preferred, the passage-couponsmay be arranged in single column between the stub U and baggage-tags B,and each individual mile-passage coupon befurnished with its attachedbaggagecoupon, in which case the inscription on the latter would ofcourse be Baggage l mile.77

Instead of twenty miles, each page may contain a less number ofmile-passage couponssuch, for example, as ten, or four, or even two.

In the act of printing the leaves of my book lines of punctures b areprovided between the baggage and passage coupons, and between theconsecutive baggage-coupons, similar to those which in my ticket andthose heretofore employed partially separate the passenger-coupons, theobject of such punctures, ofcourse, being to enable easy separation byhand of any desired number of consecutive tickets.

Iam aware th at baggage-checks and receipts for stamping have beenattached to tickets, and both have had numbers corresponding to thenumber of the ticket; such a ticket,there fore, I do not claim as myinvention, as such tickets are not available for the purpose ofpreventing fraud as practiced in the use of ordinary coupon-books.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

As a new article of manufacture, a railroadticket book having leaves onwhich are printed columns of passage-coupons A and baggagetags B,associated with the said passage-coupons and indicating the extent ofbaggage privilege, the said passage-coupons being located between thcbaggage-tags and stub (l, and said baggage-tags being adapted to beseparated from or with their respective associated passage-coupons, asset forth.

Y In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM B'. sHAT'rUc.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, PERCY KNIGHT.

